The Osceola times., 1887-09-03
BENTLY'S PRACTICE.
The Fortunate Result of an Un-
pleasant Predicament.

uNcturlnG town IN Orksbirc. / am
thankful to say we do not live there
now; only those who haye had expert
cnce Of that place can imagine how
horrible il is
Fancy great big city with between
two and three thousand inhabitants all
devoted to wool-living by it and for
il, taking, dreaming and thinking
nothing but wool, with hundreds of tall
chimnics from the mills, all pouring
forth volumes of smoke aud all max
Ing cloth, or shoddy, or something of
that kind, rs fast as they can; and with
MI this, not u ghost OF II sheep to be
seen unless one goes miles out on to
the mours, and even then the air is full
Of smoke that the poor dears are quite
black and grimy and haven't clean
back among them; so different from
the "lnproved Leicesters" my father
breeds on his farm in Devonshire. who
have ilreees as white as snow, and who
look perfectly sweet when they are
washed and started off to the Bath and
West Of England show with blue rib
bons round their necks.
Think what Braiham was to mel
used as | had been all my life to the re-
lined society of a Cathedral town; for
can assure YOU that the inhabitants of
Bradham are not charming; they are
mostly very rich, and live in great
houses with hosts of servants; the
women dress very gorgeously, and the
meu have "A taste for diamond studs
and large watch chains; they have, with
few exceptions, risen from the very
lowest class :, and are not nice in
their prosperity, but bumptious and
vulgar, and rather contemptuous
toward those who are not as wealthy
a. they are.
When Bently bought practice
there every one seemed to think that it
would be good thing, that it was n
inc opening, and that we would get on
we'll; and in the end their conjectures
proved true, though not at all in the
way they imagined.
was really very miserable at Brad
ham for two years, for ! could not get
on with the people, and Of course a
doctors wife ought TO be on good terms
with eve ybody. The only person |
cared Tor at all was Lizzie Dacres. She
and her mother lived in little house
near to us; they were not at all well
on, and Lizzie did china painting. She
and got very friendly, and we spenta
FOod deal of time together.
just at first the practice seemed a
good one. and then it began steadily TO
fall of, Whether it was that people
did not like Beatty, or thought him too
Young. can not tell; but great many
who had been his predecessors pa
uents never sent for him at all, but
employed some one else, and he grew
Tery melancholy over it.
had no fortune of my own, and he
only what he earned, as he had invest
ed all his money in this affair. 50 that
If il failed it would he a very black
lookout for us. He did not like to put
down his carriage and horse, for it
looks so bad for doctor TO have TO re-
trench, people invariably say he does
not succeed because he is incapable; so
Chen we were living far beyond our
means and getting into debt.
It was very unpleasant, and Twas al
ways reproaching myself, for | fancied
IL was partly my fault. Every one used
10 tell us 1.-THE late mans wife" had
made his practice for him.
fused to sit and think and think what
Mrs. Moxon could have done, and how
Icould possibly make Bently spractice.
heard doctors wife once who
gave supper and eolored all the jel-
lies with some pink stuff she found in
the surgery, and the next day every
one was so violently III that her hus-
band could not 20 10 bed for three
nights. but had to spend all his time
ministering to his ex-guests.
knew that Mrs. BIoxon used to give
swell dinner parties and 1 used TO
wonder if she artfully poisoned the en-
trees. and, if 40, what she did it with.
Gne day Benily came in looking
rather less blue than usual.
"Madge." he said, al have cot nice
new p, T. 1--WE used to call the patients
L. T's), and who do you think it isP'
Il could not guess SO at last he had
10 tell me MIR. Jerry Winterbottom, of
bdrrowclough.
Mr.. Jerry Winterbottom was enor-
mrusly rich and very influential. for
bc ides being mill-owner he had
great deal of land and house property.
knew him and his wife quite well by
sight; they were both very large, and
people always spoke of them as "a fine
couple'-in appearance. at least. they
were very imposing. They had the
biggest horses and the tallest footmen
IN Bradham, and only one child to
leave every thing to.
Young jerry" as be was always
called, was about twenty-four. and
quite different from his parents He
was small and slight and delicate, with
deep-sct eyes that were never still. but
always giancing nervously about
die father and mothog Weru devoted